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Military service
Service number:
460187
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division:
8th Battalion
Birth:
October 14, 1889
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Enlistment:
August 7, 1915
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death:
September 26, 1916
France
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Only son of Fanny W. McEwen (formerly Steele), of Winnipeg, Manitoba and Charles H. Steele. Brother of Esther. In civilian life, Pte Steele was employed as a bookkeeper. He sailed from Halifax, Nova Scotia onboard the S.S. Olympic on 1 April 1916 and disembarked at Liverpool, England on 11 April 1916.
Additional citations
Victory Medal, British War Medal
Digital gallery of Private Alfred Charles Steele
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Newspaper Clipping
In memory of the men and women memorialized on the pages of the Winnipeg Evening Tribune during World War One. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of Alfred Charles Steele
This is a picture we have in our family records. We also have another portrait of him with a matching plaque. The plauqe is a disc made of what seems to be copper and has "He died for Freedom" on it. -
Photo of Alfred Steele
This is a portrait of Alfred Charles Steele. -
Plaque
This is a plaque his mother Fanny Williams Steele (nee Hughes) had which has stayed with our family all these years. -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
Digital gallery of
Private Alfred Charles Steele
Digital gallery of
Private Alfred Charles Steele
Digital gallery of
Private Alfred Charles Steele
Digital gallery of
Private Alfred Charles Steele
Digital gallery of
Private Alfred Charles Steele
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 167 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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